The Academy of Management Annual Meeting is the premier conference for more than 10,000 students, academics, scholars, and professionals in the scholarly management and organization space. The 75th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management will be held August 7-11, 2015, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; sessions will take place at the Vancouver Convention Centre and additional surrounding properties. The program theme is Opening Governance

We hope to see you all in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada this August.

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Theme for the 75th Annual Meeting of the Academy of
Management

The theme of the 2015 conference, Opening Governance, invites
members to consider opportunities to improve the effectiveness and
creativity of organizations by restructuring systems at the highest
organizational levels. The term 'governance' refers to leadership
systems, managerial control protocols, property rights, decision
rights, and other practices that give organizations their authority
and mandates for action. Opening governance involves revisiting
these practices especially in light of big data, crowdsourcing, and
other emerging digital technologies that expand the information and
expertise available to organizational leaders. How and when should
managers open governance practices to involvement by engaged
stakeholders? What advances and problems arise from transparency in
decision making? The Opening Governance theme also points to
fundamental questions about how various types of organization forms
compete to govern valuable resources. What are the tradeoffs
associated with pursuing a specific value-creation opportunity
under the governance structure of an investor-owned corporation as
opposed to a privately held corporation, a B Corporation, or even a
licensing arrangement or non-profit organization? How can
organizations work more effectively with governmental agencies and
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Early registration for the 75th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management will open in mid-February. The city of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada will host the Academy of Management's Annual Meeting from August 7-11, 2015. We invite you to join us and rediscover the power of your profession.

The Annual Meeting Program for the 75th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, taking place August 7-11, 2015 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada will be available in May 2015.

In the meantime, you can still Access the 2014 Annual Meeting program online today to browse the over 1,600 sessions and activities, involving more than
8,300 of the top scholars and researchers from 88 different countries.